I like Liam Neeson a lot. Not only he can act; he is effortlessly cool, with a strong, magnetic presence many ripped colleagues half his age can only dream of.Neeson, by far the best thing about the picture, plays Ottway, one of the survivors of a plane crash in Alaska; the group struggles against cold, starvation and a pack of wolves. And what wolves they are...! Let's call them "schwolves", because they really have nothing in common with the actual Canis Lupus: relentless and sadistic, they make the Beast of the Gévaudan look like a Pomeranian.Artistic licenses about ethology aside, I am not too crazy about the movie's script by emerging screenwriter Joe Carnahan. First and more notable, even disregarding the schwolves, there is a streak of nonsense running through the story. Gritty survival dramas don't need to be 100% realistic but, more than in other genres, the characters' main decisions need to stand up to scrutiny. Ottway orders the group to abandon the plane's wreckage, where they would have partial shelter from cold and animals and at least a chance of being found... why? Because, he casually states as if it's not even worth discussing, nobody will find the plane. Oh, okay. Ever heard of ELTs?Then he pushes his companions to reach the woods, where they'll be, get this, safer from wolves. Am I missing something? Maybe the movie's schwolves just love plane wreckages but avoid woods? No they don't, woods prove to be most unsafe for the group. That's a truly shocking development.Am I supposed to think that Ottway is an idiot? Obviously not, because the script clearly wants us to be in awe of him and of the ludicrous factoids about animals and survival he spouts. Maybe his phone does have a signal and he is just googling this stuff from some very stupid site.Aside for Ottway, characters are flat and underdeveloped - except Frank Grillo's Diaz, who gets even too much exposure as the obligatory Angry Jerkass (of the more benign "who eventually learns to cooperate" variety). I am also not impressed by the movie's attempts at depth, with garden-variety nihilism and overcompensating masculine stoicism. Before the end there is a scene where Ottway screams his desperation at the sky... and God doesn't answer. Wow, deep. Good thing you have your dad's crap inspirational poem to motivate you, Ottway.A wasted opportunity; pity, because Neeson is always good and I enjoyed the straightforward premise, which does lead to some effectively tense moments.5,5/10

Many of the public reviews here in IMDb have already stated how terrible this film really is, so it feels quite unnecessary and close to pointless to add another statement of the same kind. When someone claims this to be the best film they ever saw, it just tells me that it also must be the first. Still, according to expectations the Grey really falls through the scale. One point is that this is a very disappointing performance from Liam Neeson, and actor mainly associated with quality both in his acting and choice of projects. But the main point is that this has nothing at all to do with real wildlife or nature. This is such an unrealistic nonsense that people like the old wildlife novelist Jack London, the master of the genre, must be turning embarrassed in his grave, though his descriptions of humans meeting wolves and struggling with grand nature was rather romanticized. But that was a century ago, this is 2011, and one is allowed to expect much more. The wolves in the Grey are so non realistic, animated out of some cruel old fairy tale, that it's sickening and disturbing. What is the purpose - to please the fanatic action/fantasy audience? As for the rest of the plot, it's at best mediocre and lacks depth and dynamics. There seems to be only one goal, Liam Neeson's tough appearance is supposed to fight the conditions and win over them alone. It's just plain silly. I couldn't care less about the Chainsaw Award, giving the prize for best actor to Neeson. The award goes with it's name. A massacre.

The movie was a little bit better than i was expected.(i read a couple reviews without spoilers before i watched it ) Liam Neeson's performance was truly outstanding,and i loved the way that the movie played with the different psychology between humans in the same circumstances.

This is one of the deepest movies I have ever watched. Point is not about the wolves, location or anything else. Point is about him loosing the loved one. And only If you lost someone you truly loved you will be able to understand what he felt. He went to take his own life but he couldn't, subconsciously he wanted that someone else does it, in this case it was the wolves.